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Re: Switchboard

To: [email protected] (Bill Frantz), [email protected] (Steven Weller), [email protected]
Subject: Re: Switchboard
From: [email protected] (Robert Hettinga)
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 1996 09:04:13 -0500
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At 2:27 AM 3/7/96, Bill Frantz wrote:

> I checked them out and the couldn't find my record.  Since I have a listed
> telephone number, I can only assume that their records do not include GTE
> local service records or some other equally huge gap.

I was messing around with this a year and a half ago (woulda shoulda
coulda), and my guess is they're using Reuben Donnelly's database. They're
the largest phonebook printer, and they even go so far as to OCR a lot, but
apparently not all, of their competition.

They say 90 million names, and that seems to be the number I was quoted...

Cheers,
Bob

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